Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-03-26

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a Nights The following incident of Mr.
/ sherman's stay herefis most talked Of
The proprietor oftle. hotel where th,
senator first stopped refused to allow {
i delegation Of colored men to perceived
in the senator's room. Senator Sher
man Immediately paid his billand wen
to another hotel. He will leave to
morrow for Nashville
Birmingham, Ala, lIarch 3d. Senator
Sherman, before he left for Nashville
this morning, received a delegation O
colored citizens in tie United States
court room. A long address was pre-
sented to him, eulogizing his action il
leaving the hotel whose proprietor re
fused to permit the presence Of colorec
visitors i'll his ROOM. Mr.. Sherman il
response, advised forbearance, and said
Be true to yourselves, besindustrious
and the day will come when you car
command recognition as men and citi.
zens Of the United States, free and equal
with all men.
SHERMAN AT NASHVILLE.
Nashville, March 24.-Senator Sher-
man and his party were driven about
the city in carriages, calling at the CAPT
toland at the home Of Mrs. James Polk,
at the Vanderbilt and Fisk universities,
and several of the manufacturing in
situations. At night in the state capitol
| he spoke to an immense audience, say
ing, among many otherthings, this much
in regard to the colored man:
The was is over, but the courage,
bravery and fortitude of both sides are
now the pride and heritage of US all.
Think not that [ come here to reproach
any man for the part he took in that
fight, or to revive in the heart of any one
the triumph of victory or the pangs of
defeat. do not cometo make apologies,
nor do ask any of you. The war was
perhaps unavoidable. All claim is that
the Republican party was actuated, not
bya spirit Of hate or conquest or revenge,
but only by a feryentlove of the Union
and determined purpose to maintain
the constitution, as they understood it.
No man in tile North questions the
honesty of purpose orthe lleroism with
WHICH the Confederates maintained
their cause, and you will give credit for
like courage and honorable motives to
Union soldiers North and South. The
attempt to enforce the rights of the
colored men by national authority has
thus far partly failed, and now it is con-
coded that under the limitations Of the
constitution the rights of the citizen of a
state can only be enforced through state
or national tribunals; .eslNi.sehere public
opinion is intolerant and jurors will not
do their duty, a citizen, white or black,
may be without remedy for the grossest
wrong, except the right to migrate to
where his rights will be respected. Our
institutions are based upon the idea that
such denial of rights is impossible, and l
trust that the time is not far distant
when the people of every state will feel
it to be both just and expedient that
every citizen of the state shall be pro-
tected in the free and equal enjoyment
Of every right and privilege conferred
by the constitution Of the United States.
The Republican party would be false to
its principles if it did not use all its
moral and legal power to that end. I
was glad to hear in passing through
several of the Southern states, conser-
vative citizens say that public sentiment
now revolted at the unlawful methods
to defeat the free exercise ofequal rights
of citizens that had been adopted in
several states and are still practiced in
what are know as the black counties of
the South. AS long as such methods
are resorted to, there will be the keen
sense Of wrong and injustice, to the in
jured parties and those who practice
such offenses, will, in the end suffer for
it. Sectional feeling will continue to
exist as long as large masses of people
are denied their rights to share in self
government. The freedman in the full
enjoyment of his rights will divide be-
tween parties as our citizens do, and his
laborwill become the great factor in the
wealth and prosperity Of the region in
which he lives. / wish to express in
the strongest language my admiration
and respect for the vim and energy with
which the South is graphing with the
new conditions Of labor and industry by
which they are surrounded, and my
confident belief that within single
generation your people will more than
be repaid for the value Of the slaves by
the result of diversified industry and
subdivision Of land. The time seems
| now near at hand when you and your
children will rejoice not only that the
slaves free, but that the Union has been
| preserved and strengthened
The tariff and currency questions we're
then considered and Republican policy
commended and Democratic policy con-
demned. The Republican party, he
said, favored aiding the states In the
education OF illiterate children, and the
senator favored federal appropriations
for that purpose. He then devoted
some time to the question of internal
improvements. Senator Sherman in
closing enlogized the Republican party
at length, referred to the clamorous cry
of the Democrats in 1854 about time for
a change" and denied that they had
accomplished or attempted any impor-
tant reform measures.